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Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872 – August 25, 1932) was an American socialite, daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. She and her husband Harold Fowler McCormick were prominent in Chicago society, supporting many causes, including the city's first opera company.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Cyrus and Nettie McCormick’s second son, Princeton-educated Harold, hit the matrimonial jackpot in 1895 when he married John D. Rockefeller’s daughter, Edith, uniting two of America’s great dynasties.
A prominent socialite and one of Chicago’s wealthiest women, Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872-1932), became a real estate developer in the 1920s. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the daughter of oil magnate, J.D. Rockefeller, and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick was one of the most eccentric of America's art patrons in the early decades of the 20th century. Heiress to the Standard Oil fortune, for many years she ruled over Chicago society and gave lavishly to her city's cultural institutions.
As near to royalty as it is possible to come in the U. S. was Edith Rockefeller when, in 1895, she married that most handsome and eligible of contemporary Princetonians, Harold McCormick. The...
Born in 1872, Edith soon developed artistic and intellectual inclinations. She played the cello, learned to speak several languages, and was an avid reader of scholarly works. At 23, she married...
Aug 24, 2020 · Chicago’s quirky patron saint This thrilling story of a daughter of America’s foremost industrialist, John D. Rockefeller, is complete with sex, money, mental illness, and opera divas—and a woman who strove for the independence to make her own choices.
Feb 2, 2022 · Edith Rockefeller McCormick did not come to a happy end. In fact, the woman once thought to be the richest in the country died broke. How she got there makes a fascinating story, parts joyous...
Edith Rockefeller McCormick was an art collector and the youngest daughter of John D. Rockefeller. She was married to Harold Fowler McCormick (1872-1941), the son of Cyrus Hall McCormick the inventor of the reaper and a founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (married in 1895, divorced in 1921).
Feb 24, 1998 · CHICAGO — Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick is the reincarnation of the first wife of Tutank Hamen, according to the "Chicago Herald's" report of a fashionable dinner, where the former...
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